页数： 528 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: Professor Vecce has brought sensitivity and respect to Caterina’s life in a story that gallops across the page on the energy of his immense historical research and results in a compelling novel that reads like a story from the Arabian Nights or the Travels of Marco Polo, all the while granting us detailed insight into the mother of one of the greatest minds of all time, Leonardo da Vinci.

Professor Vecce is a historian who has been researching Leonardo da Vinci for many years. When he recently found evidence in the archives that suggested Caterina to be Leonardo’s mother, Professor Vecce felt compelled to tell her story first in a novel because the findings are immense: Caterina was from Circassia, and was brought to Italy by way of the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, and Constantinople, to Venice, where women from Circassia were brought work on the production of brocade. She was a slave, a woman whose life, possessions, voice, and liberty were taken from her. The author saw so many parallels to our modern-day plight of slaves and international refugees that his desire to allow this woman to be known and to become immediately human in our eyes overcame even his instincts as a historian (nb, his scientific article was published on 30/10/23; his non-fiction title, The Life of Leonardo will be published by Giunti in April 2024.)

页数： 374 到书日期： 2024-10-10 上传日期： 2024-10-10

中文概要: 近三千年来，科林斯的西西弗斯国王一直是世界神话中最引人入胜的角色之一。西西弗斯将肩膀顶住巨石，将其推向冥界山顶的经典形象在全世界广为人知。

对许多诗人和哲学家而言，从荷马和埃斯库罗斯到露西尔·克利夫顿和阿尔贝·加缪，叛逆的英雄一直是艰辛智慧和超越痛苦斗争的有力象征，而更具怀疑态度的评论者则将西西弗斯对众神的反抗解读为徒劳和注定失败的行为。

在这部神话诗意的小说中，菲尔·库西诺重新构想了西西弗斯，描绘他通过自己在忍受臭名昭著的惩罚时所写的笔记讲述自己的故事。这些笔记中包含了他为同胞科林斯人所做的自我牺牲、他对众神不公的大胆反抗，以及对妻子和儿子无限的爱，这些都为他赢得了第二次生命的机会。

英文简介: For nearly three thousand years, King Sisyphus of Corinth has been one of the most compelling characters in world mythology. The iconic image of Sisyphus putting his shoulder to the boulder and pushing it to the summit of a mountain in the Underworld is recognizable the world over.

To many poets and philosophers, from Homer and Aeschylus to Lucille Clifton and Albert Camus, the rebel hero has been a powerful symbol for hard-earned wisdom and the struggle to transcend suffering, while more skeptical commentators have interpreted Sisyphus’ defiance of the gods as futile and doomed.

In this mythopoetic novel, Phil Cousineau reimagines Sisyphus as telling his own tale through notebooks he kept while enduring his notorious punishment, which include surprising revelations about the self-sacrifice he made for his fellow Corinthians, his bold fight against the injustice of the gods, and the unbounded love for his wife and sons that earned him a second chance at life.

The Lost Notebooks of Sisyphus is a timeless allegory that helps us come to terms with our own daily struggles and shines new light on Camus’ existential conclusion that, "We must imagine Sisyphus as happy."

I am Sisyphus, King of Corinth, great-great-grandson of Prometheus, great-grandson of Deucalion and Pyrrha, grandson of Hellen and Orseis, son of Aeolus and Enarate, husband of Merope, father of Glaucus, Ornytion, Almus, and Thersander, and grandfather of Bellerophon, slayer of the Chimera.

I am a champion of navigators, sailors, athletes, merchants, poets, and playwrights, and an enemy of tyrants, despots, bullies, ruffians, and demagogues. I honor the gods and goddesses by building splendid temples, holy shrines, and sacrificial altars worthy of their glory.

Many men deep am I, as my mentor, the deep-browed, long- bearded, wise-counseling Alexandros of Milos described me.

What I am not is a scoundrel, as scandalmongers have impugned across the centuries while exonerating the cruel gods who condemned me.

页数： 350 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: 1858: The Malay Archipelago. In the remote tropics a young British naturalist, Alfred Wallace, toils in obscurity. He collects specimens: beetles, moths, ants and birds that sell for pennies apiece in England.

One night, suffering from fever and hallucination, Wallace solves the greatest mystery of the era: the origin of species. To circulate his discovery, he contacts a distant acquaintance Charles Darwin. Unbeknownst to Wallace, Darwin has been secretly penning a near-identical version of the same evolutionary theory for twenty years. Darwin soon achieves world-renown and Wallace earns, if nothing else, widespread grudging respect. But then Wallace returns to England where his advocacy for ideas ranging from socialism to spiritualism launches him on a collision course with the men at the very heart of the scientific establishment, including Darwin.

The Evolutionist tells of one man’s determination to seek out his own truths in his own unique way and the price he pays. From oppressive jungle to mid-Victorian London, this is a disturbing tale of money, class, faith and discrimination.

页数： 274 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work, discrimination, war, relationships, sexuality and love in the early part of the 20th Century.

Includes works by English and American writers Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered ‘sisters’ from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.

List of authors and works included:

A Woman by Fani Popova-Mutafova (translated by Petya Pavlova)
Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds
The Little Governess by Katherine Mansfield
Villa Myosotis by Sorana Gurian (translated by Gabi Reigh)
The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself [extract] by Radclyffe Hall
I sit and sew by Alice Dunbar Nelson
First Steps [extract] by Dorka Talmon (translated by Mira Glover)
Coming Home by Maria Messina (translated by Juliette Neil)
Vegetal Reverie by Magda Isanos (translated by Gabi Reigh)
The Iceberg by Zelda Fitzgerald
The Russian Princess by Carmen de Burgos (translated by Slava Faybysh)
Bring to Me All… by Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Nina Kossman)
Autres Temps by Edith Wharton
Unheard by Yente Serdatsky (translated by Dalia Wolfson)
Fog by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Stuart Cooke)
Natalia [extract] by Fausta Cialente (translated by Laura Shanahan)
What makes this century worse? by Anna Akhmatova (translated by Olga Livshin)
Broken by Nataliya Kobrynska (translated by Hanna Leliv & Slava Faybysh)
Sunset by Antonia Pozzi (translated by Sonia di Placido)
Once Upon A Time by Ling Shuhua (translated by Leilei Chen)
Their Religions and our Marriages: Herland [extract] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Goodbye Lebanon by May Ziadeh (translated by Rose DeMaris)

页数： 368 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-23

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英文简介: A bored socialite becomes a cunning amateur sleuth in this wildly entertaining, Agatha Christie¬inspired mystery of murder and mayhem set in nineteenth-century Poland¶“An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.”―Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate and author of the Man Booker International Prize winner Flights¶ Cracow, 1893: Zofia Turbotynska―professor’s wife, socialite, and bored homemaker―has little more to do than plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crime. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own murder investigation, unbeknownst to anyone but her loyal cook Franciszka and one reluctant nun. With her husband blissfully unaware of her secret, Zofia remakes herself into one the most surprising, and maybe even effective, detectives combing the city streets. But what will it take for her to find the killer. . .before she becomes the next victim?

页数： 300 到书日期： 2024-3-21 上传日期： 2024-3-21

中文概要: 一部无可挑剔的历史小说，博关经典，故事情节充斥着阴谋、爱情和可怕的欺骗，风格迷人而精致，带领读者穿越皇宫的金碧辉煌的寝宫和气势恢宏的花园，向读者展示东方城市的神秘一面。

约翰一世·齐米斯克斯和他的叔叔菲卡斯一起长大，随着时间的推移，他成为了一名英勇的领袖，并与他那个时代最杰出的将军尼克弗洛斯二世和利奥·菲卡斯一起勇敢地为拜占庭帝国而战。战争是他唯一的人生方向:妻子死于难产，他父亲的亲戚库尔库亚斯(Kurkuas)认为他是叛徒。当乔凡尼似乎除了与佛卡斯人并肩作战之外没有其他选择时，三个女巫预言他将成为皇帝。但是，既然他的导师尼克福洛斯坐在宝座上，而他就是抚养他的人，这怎么可能呢?

当尼克福洛斯背弃了他，迷人的西奥帕诺对他暗送秋波时，齐米斯克斯必须要对他自己的未来作出抉择：对皇帝保持忠诚，坚守他从小就遵循的原则，还是取代他的位置，完全接受他的Collana Le strade 命运?

战争、谋杀、阴谋和背叛：索尼娅·阿乔(Sonia Aggio)在处女作《颂歌》(Magnificat)之后，带着一本扣人心弦、充满曲折的小说强势回归，追溯了一个非凡男人的故事，他从一个普通的士兵开始，出人意料地夺取了王位，成功改变了他的帝国的命运。在这本书中，作者以卓越的才华和精准的笔 调，通过约翰一世齐米斯克斯登上王位的史诗故事，重构了他的存在寓言，描述了世界上有史以来最广为流传的所谓‘天命所归’。(Sandy)

英文简介: An impeccable historical novel, with the flavor of a classic with a plot full of intrigues, loves and terrible deceptions, and an engaging and refined style, which takes the reader through the glittering rooms of the imperial palaces and their magnificent gardens, showing us the secret sides of the cities of the East.

John i Tzimiskes who grew up with his maternal uncles, the Phokas, over the time became a valiant leader and fought courageously for the Byzantine Empire alongside Nikephoros II, the most brilliant general of his era, and Leo Phokas. War is all he has left: his wife died during childbirth and his father’s relatives, the Kurkuas, consider him a traitor. When it seems that Giovanni has no other purpose than fighting alongside the Phokas, three witches prophesy that he will become emperor. But how can this be possible, given that Nikephoros, his mentor, sits on the throne and he is the man who raised him and for whom he would give his life?

When Nikephoros turns his back on him and the charming Theophano knocks on his door, Tzimiskes has to decide what he wants to do with his future: remain faithful to the emperor, supporting the principles he grew up with, or take his place, definitively accepting his destiny?

Wars, murders, conspiracies and betrayals: after her debut with Magnificat, Sonia Aggio returns to bookstores with a gripping novel full of twists and turns, retracing the events of an extraordinary man who, starting from a simple soldier, managed to change the fate of his Empire by unexpectedly conquering the crown. In this book, with great talent and accuracy, the author reconstructs the existential parable of John I Tzimiskes through the epic tale of his rise to the throne, describing the daily reality of one of the most extensive dominations the world has ever known.

页数： 432 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2023-12-18

中文概要: Indie Next和LibraryReads“名人堂”精选！

《解放的力量》是弗雷娅•马斯克备受喜爱、屡获殊荣的《最后的束缚》中的最后一部作品，这是一部以《神奇之光》开始的酷儿历史奇幻系列。

“把人弄得一团糟，把它弄得一团糟……马斯克用整个跨度来建造美丽而毁灭性的结论。”——《纽约时报》

“令人惊叹的是，这本书文字丰茂，古老的建筑引人入胜，浪漫炙手可热。我完全被这个故事迷住了，这个故事讲的是危险的人彼此相爱，永不后悔。”——凯特•塞巴斯蒂安，《吉特•韦伯的奇妙原理》的作者，LitHub、Book Riot、亚马逊、Powell’s和Popsugar精选

秘密！魔法！敌人。还有什么？

杰克•奥尔斯顿是霍桑勋爵，他喜欢美好、安全、舒适的生活。在他的双胞胎妹妹死后。他认为他已经和马格尔彻底分手了。但随着危险仪式的威胁笼罩着英国的魔法师，他不情愿地被拉回到了那个世界。

现在，杰克住在伦敦一栋神奇联排别墅中一个奇怪的拼图盒子里，帮助一群不太可能的朋友在他们的敌人做同样的事情之前找到《最后的契约》的最后一部分。更糟糕的是，他们需要作家兼小偷艾伦•罗斯的帮助。

艾伦来这只是为了钱。贵族霍托尔勋爵拥有他所有未得到的权力，这是艾伦所憎恨的，不幸的是，艾伦恰好是杰克想要的。

当一场夺取难以想象的权力的阴谋在奇瑟姆庄园的家族庄园达到顶点时，这片土地十分古老，被诅咒得像主人杰克一样易怒，艾伦和他们的盟友将陷入一个充满香槟、秘密和血腥牺牲的夜晚。在英国，魔法的基础将在结束前被根源所夯实。

《最后的束缚》三部曲：

《神奇之光》

《不安的真相》

《解放的力量》(ZY)

英文简介: An Indie Next and LibraryReads "Hall of Fame" Pick!

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.

"Messy people and burn-it-down conflict. . . . Marske uses the full span of the trilogy to build to a beautiful, devastating conclusion."―The New York Times

"Stunning―the writing is lush, the world-building is fascinating, and the romance is searing hot. I am completely obsessed with this story of unrepentantly dangerous people falling in love with one another."―Cat Sebastian, author of The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

A Best Of Pick for LitHub, Book Riot, Amazon, Powell’s, and PopSugar

Secrets! Magic! Enemies to. . .something more?

Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he’s drawn reluctantly back into that world.

Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the final piece of the Last Contract before their enemies can do the same. And to make matters worse, they need the help of writer and thief Alan Ross.

Cagey and argumentative, Alan is only in this for the money. The aristocratic Lord Hawthorn, with all his unearned power, is everything that Alan hates. And unfortunately, Alan happens to be everything that Jack wants in one gorgeous, infuriating package.

When a plot to seize unimaginable power comes to a head at Cheetham Hall―Jack’s ancestral family estate, a land so old and bound in oaths that it’s grown a personality as prickly as its owner―Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets, and bloody sacrifice . . . and the foundations of magic in Britain will be torn up by the roots before the end.

The Last Binding Trilogy:

A Marvellous Light

A Restless Truth

A Power Unbound

页数： 532 到书日期： 2023-9-12 上传日期： 2023-9-11

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英文简介: With more than 50 million copies of his books in print, John Jakes is one of the preeminent novelists of American historical fiction. Now this beloved storyteller takes readers to Charleston, South Carolina, in a stunning multigenerational saga that tells the story of two apocalyptic, nation-shaping wars as seen through the eyes of a powerful South Carolina dynasty.

Written in three parts, Charleston follows the lives, loves, and shifting fortunes of the Bells, saints and evildoers mingled together in one unforgettable family, from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the Civil War and the savage defeat of the Confederacy. Delving into our country’s history as only he can, Jakes paints a powerful portrait of the Charleston aristocracy who zealously guarded their privilege and position, harboring dark family secrets that threatened to destroy them all. Sweeping from the bitterly divided Carolina frontier of the 1770s through the tragic destruction of the city during the Civil War, and peopled by a sprawling cast of memorable characters-patriots and cowards, aristocrats and abolitionists, slaves and freedmen, heroic men and courageous women-Charleston represents America’s premier storyteller at his very best. Read less

页数： 288 到书日期： 2023-9-12 上传日期： 2023-9-11

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英文简介: As Sherman and his army march from Atlanta to the sea in 1864, the charming old city of Savannah lies directly in their path, threatening the livelihood of widow Sara Lester and her twelve-year-old daughter Hattie, who struggle to save the family plantation, but when Sherman offers Lincoln the city as a Christmas gift, he finds himself on a collision course with young Hattie. 225,000 first printing.

页数： 240 到书日期： 2023-8-10 上传日期： 2023-8-9

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英文简介: Stories of the American West by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South, “the best historical novelist of our time” (Patricia Cornwell).

In these timeless stories of the untamed American West, John Jakes thrillingly portrays the harsh realities of life on the frontier with tales of lawmen in the Sierra Nevada, railroad workers in Kansas, and gamblers on the steamboat River Queen. From a saloon showdown unlike any other and outlaws double-crossing each other to a fur trapper hell-bent on vengeance and a power struggle between medicine men, Jakes’s frontier stories capture the same sweeping historical drama and unforgettable characterizations as his epic novels in the Crown Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles, and the North and South Trilogy.

“At the very heart of every Jakes saga is a story that throbs to the beat of history.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer